Welcome Google Summer of Code 2022 Contributors!

[Jmm (Jean-Marc Meessen)]

On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC team and mentors, We would like to welcome Dheeraj Singh Jodha, Yiming Gong, Hrushikesh Rao, and Vihaan Thora. They will be working on Google Summer of Code projects in the Jenkins organization, and they have already done some contributions.

This year we have the following projects:

• Plugin Health Scoring System - Provide a ‘plugin health indicator’ for plugin maintainers and Jenkins administrators.

  • Contributor: Dheeraj Singh Jodha from India
  • Mentors: Jake Leon, Adrien Lecharpentier, and Aditya Srivastava

• Jenkinsfile Runner Action for GitHub Actions - Implement a (near) feature-complete version of Jenkinsfile Runner Action for GitHub Actions.

  • Contributor: Yiming Gong from Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Mentors: Kris Stern, Abhyudaya Sharma, and Shubham Kumar

• Automatic git cache maintenance on the controller - Automate the maintenance of cached git repositories on the Jenkins controller.

  • Contributor: Hrushikesh Rao from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
  • Mentors: Mark Waite and Rishabh Budhouliya

• Pipeline Step Documentation Generator Improvements - “Enhance the Jenkins Pipeline documentation generator to produce better documentation for thousands of Pipeline developers”.

  • Contributor: Vihaan Thora from Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India
  • Mentors: Kristin Whetstone, Harshit Chopra, and Tasneem Koushar

During the next weeks project teams will be reaching out to potential stakeholders in order to establish connections and to get comments regarding their project designs. If you are interested in the projects, please join discussions in the Developer mailing lists and project meetings once they get scheduled. Please also expect expect more detailed blogposts about the projects soon.

If you are interested to know more about GSoC in Jenkins, you can find information, timeline and communication channels here.

[Cr1t-GYM (Cr1t)]

Thanks for the patience and valuable advice from the community members! It really helps me a lot along the road of polishing the project ideas.

[dheerajodha (Dheeraj)]

Thank you very much for welcoming us. I’m very happy to get this opportunity to be a part of this program and contribute code to Jenkins. I’m excited for what’s to come, and also looking forward to learning and interacting with the community members and my mentors! \(^_^)/

[vihaanthora]

Thank you for the welcome!
Congratulations to all the selected contributors. Looking forward to an interesting and exciting summer ahead. Hope to make some valuable contributions to Jenkins under GSoC '22.

Best Wishes,
Vihaan

[kwhetstone (Kristin Whetstone Cain)]

So excited to see these projects run this summer! It’ll be a few few months

[alyssat]

We will be hosting a Jenkins GSoC Kickoff meeting this Thursday, May 26 @ 3PM UTC to welcome new contributors and mentors. Standby for the calendar invite.